Designing an automated complex based on a mini-CHP with recycling the flue gas to methanol

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https://doi.org/10.15587/1729-4061.2017.108572

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co-generation, recycling of carbon dioxide, methanol production, oxygen production, electrical and thermal energy

Abstract

We developed a structure of the cogeneration plant (a four-generation plant), which, in addition to classic electrical and thermal energy, produces methanol and oxygen. A distinctive feature of the plant is that methanol production is based on the recycling of flue gas from a mini-CHP as a result of the catalytic technological process. Production of oxygen is an additional product during production of hydrogen required for the synthesis of methanol. Production of hydrogen and oxygen is carried out by the electrolysis of water. Electrical energy required for the electrolysis is supplied by a mini-CHP. We designed computer automation for all plants of the system that enable implementation of practically autonomous, unmanned operation of the system.

Computer simulation of the system and study of the system's operation, executed in the environment of a universal software for technological modeling based on the physical and chemical balances, allowed us to calculate parameters of all product and energy flows, to confirm the feasibility of all employed chemical reactions and the alignment of the system's functioning as a whole with the expected results. 

Author Biographies

Oleksandr Protsyshen, Odessa National Polytechnic University Shevchenko ave., 1, Odessa, Ukraine, 65044

Department of automation of power processes 

Oleksii Stopakevych, Odessa National Polytechnic University Shevchenko ave., 1, Odessa, Ukraine, 65044

PhD, Associate Professor

Department of automation of power processes 

Andrii Stopakevych, Odessa national O. S. Popov academy of telecommunications Kuznechna str., 1, Odessa, Ukraine, 65029

PhD, Associate Professor

Department of computer-integrated technological processes and industries

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2017-08-24

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Protsyshen, O., Stopakevych, O., & Stopakevych, A. (2017). Designing an automated complex based on a mini-CHP with recycling the flue gas to methanol. Eastern-European Journal of Enterprise Technologies, 4(2 (88), 61–67. https://doi.org/10.15587/1729-4061.2017.108572

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Vol. 4 No. 2 (88) (2017): Information technology. Industry control systems

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Industry control systems

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